'Homeland' to steal from headlines

Could the popular Showtime series “Homeland” take a cue from the Benghazi news story in its forthcoming season?

Deadline reports that Tracy Letts is set to become a series regular during the third season, set to debut Sept. 29. He’ll portray Sen. Andrew Lockhart, “the powerful, authoritative and commanding committee chairman asking tough questions as the government’s investigation begins in the wake of the (spoiler alert) horrific terror attack that decimated the U.S. intelligence apparatus, and prompted a global manhunt for the world’s most wanted terrorist — Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis).” (Previous Broadway credits for Letts include “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “August: Osage County”.)

Text Size

Sound familiar? As Think Progress’s Alyssa Rosenberg points out, Letts looks to “be joining Homeland to do in fiction what Rep. Darrell Issa would love to do in real life. … Will Lockhart find conspiracies everywhere, and an administration determined to cover them up, essentially affirming the position Issa’s taken in the real world? Or will something more subtle and interesting happen?”